Down the Rabbit-Hole is an on-going computing art project initiated by artist, Wei Zhou and software developer, Henrik Hasell, initially launched at the beginning of 2020. It consists of an AI text generator and a continually updating news-database, which analyses categories of online news from politics and technology, to health and food.
This project aims to challenge the crooked ground of media dissemination in the news production industry. The synchronization between the world events and the immediateness of news production. The typically fragmental reading of a newspaper can barely hold the gravity of truth in this era of political control and information manipulation.
The randomly selected words from daily news stirs the mixture of reliability and authority of media bodies, stretches the information wrap that is built around our perception and discernibility. The absurdity and alienation of the generated text confronts the century's challenge of the information flow, post-truth and the leaking boat of social trust to media institutions, facing the crisis of the tilted objectivity and morality of contemporary journalism.
The, sometime tragic, sometime comical sense appear among the generated text which mostly makes little sense, but shivers the way how people experience daily information, releases an echo in current phenomenon.
This project aims to challenge the crooked ground of media dissemination in the news production industry. The synchronization between the world events and the immediateness of news production. The typically fragmental reading of a newspaper can barely hold the gravity of truth in this era of political control and information manipulation.
The randomly selected words from daily news stirs the mixture of reliability and authority of media bodies, stretches the information wrap that is built around our perception and discernibility. The absurdity and alienation of the generated text confronts the century's challenge of the information flow, post-truth and the leaking boat of social trust to media institutions, facing the crisis of the tilted objectivity and morality of contemporary journalism.
The, sometime tragic, sometime comical sense appear among the generated text which mostly makes little sense, but shivers the way how people experience daily information, releases an echo in current phenomenon.
